Heart of Paradox
The heart of existence
Goal:
not to have but to be
not to own but to give
not to control but to share
not to subdue but to be in accord
My heart is so small it's almost invisible. How can You place such big sorrows in it? “Look,” He answered, “your eyes are even smaller, yet they behold the world.”
Maryam Mafi • Rumi's Little Book of the Heart
Even though the heart is one of the Bible’s most dominant themes, there is much confusion about the term. In western culture the term is relegated to the fields of romance (Valentine’s Day) and sports (“he plays with a lot of heart”). In the Bible, however, the heart is an essential category. You cannot understand the human being without understand
... See morePaul David Tripp • Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands
It is a paradox— the impossibility of reclaiming that which lies behind, housed within a form comprised entirely of the repurposed pieces of the same past. We exist where we begin, yet to remain there is death.
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